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A review by jeffrey_de_boer
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
4.0
Rating updated from 1 star (in 2016 I'd say) to 4 stars now.
I am so glad to have given this book another try after hating it in secondary school. I loved the Romanticism displayed throughout the book even though the book came out in the Victorian era, and while the philosophical musings of Lord Henry were sometimes too difficult to understand or follow for me at least, the character development makes it all worthwhile. There are some time jumps that confused me, but I have been able to make sense of it. I could also appreciate Dorian's obsessive reading and collecting now when seeing them as materialism and indulgence---symbolic for the sins on Dorian's soul, or rather, the picture. Very much recommend this book!
I am so glad to have given this book another try after hating it in secondary school. I loved the Romanticism displayed throughout the book even though the book came out in the Victorian era, and while the philosophical musings of Lord Henry were sometimes too difficult to understand or follow for me at least, the character development makes it all worthwhile. There are some time jumps that confused me, but I have been able to make sense of it. I could also appreciate Dorian's obsessive reading and collecting now when seeing them as materialism and indulgence---symbolic for the sins on Dorian's soul, or rather, the picture. Very much recommend this book!